I personally do not care for stockless shotguns or rifles. Having said that, I will also admit that they can have their place. True story...

Some years ago, a friend's dad had retired from a second job and, in his 70's, with little to do in the early morning hours, got himself a paper route...the kind where you deliver to and collect from paper boxes. One of the other guys doing a different route was robbed at gunpoint and roughed up a bit, so my friend's dad decided that he would buy himself a Cruiser (if they even called them that way back when) in 20ga. We both advised him against it and recommended a good revolver, but he was adamant that the shotgun was what he wanted, and we realized that there was little chance that he would ever use it anyway...it was a "feel good" weapon...or so we thought.

About two months later he pulled up to a row of paper boxes in the wee hours of the morning on the outskirts of Miami, and before he could exit the truck, a thug with a ski mask ran up and stuck a gun in his face telling him to "Give it up"! He did...throwing the money box on the parking lot pavement. Mr. Thug reached down and grabbed it, and was looking right down the barrel of that Cruiser when he straightened up. He pointed his little .32 revolver at ol' dad, and that was the end of that...the flash from a round of #3 Buck was the last thing he ever saw. Too bad he did not realize that the old man who he chose as his "victim" was a retired cop who also just happened to have been a Marine Raider in the Pacific during WWII.